Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Waterbirds Theme Research Report
Heather McGinness
Kate Brandis
Freya Robinson
Melissa Piper
Lauren O'Brien
Art Langston
Jessica Hodgson
Lucy Wenger
John Martin
Maria Bellio
Dianne Callaghan
Emily Webster
Roxane Francis
Justine McCann
Mitchell Lyons
Veronica Doerr
Richard Kingsford
Ralp Mac Nally
Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems
10.26181/5d2eb0ed77159
https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/journal_contribution/Murray-Darling_Basin_Environmental_Water_Knowledge_and_Research_Project_Waterbirds_Theme_Research_Report/8942051
The research conducted by the MDB EWKR Waterbird Theme has produced new information to assist managers to better target water, vegetation and waterbird management to ensure ‘event readiness’ at sites between flooding events and to maximise recruitment. Maximising recruitment into the adult population depends on optimising the number of birds that nest, the number of chicks that fledge from each site, and the survival of those birds as juveniles, sub-adults and breeding adults. Information is needed quantifying these variables and what affects them – however the mobility of waterbirds and lack of information on their movements makes this difficult. Therefore, the MDB EWKR Waterbird Theme research activities included: detailed movement and habitat-use studies of individual birds over the duration of the EWKR project using tracking devices (satellite GPS transmitters); motion-sensing and time-lapse camera nest monitoring; on-ground tagged-nest and water depth monitoring; colony mapping; analysis of chick diet and energy sources; and modelling of chick energy requirements.
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EWKR
Environmental water assessment
environmental water delivery
recruitment
flooding events
breeding events
habitat use
energy requirements
GPS tracking
nest monitoring
waterbirds colony mapping
chick diet
Animal Behaviour
Behavioural Ecology
Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
Freshwater Ecology
Ecology
Ecosystem Function
Environmental Science
Environmental Management
Wildlife and Habitat Management